Isaiah 52:11
New Living Translation
11 Get out! Get out and leave your captivity,
where everything you touch is unclean.
Get out of there and purify yourselves,
you who carry home the sacred objects of the Lord.
Isaiah 52:11
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2 Corinthians 6:17
New Living Translation
17 Therefore, come out from among unbelievers,
and separate yourselves from them, says the Lord.
Don’t touch their filthy things,
and I will welcome you.[a]
Footnotes
- 6:17 Isa 52:11; Ezek 20:34 (Greek version).
2 Corinthians 6:17
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Zechariah 2:6-7
New Living Translation
The Exiles Are Called Home
6 The Lord says, “Come away! Flee from Babylon in the land of the north, for I have scattered you to the four winds. 7 Come away, people of Zion, you who are exiled in Babylon!”
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Isaiah 48:20
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20 Yet even now, be free from your captivity!
Leave Babylon and the Babylonians.[a]
Sing out this message!
Shout it to the ends of the earth!
The Lord has redeemed his servants,
the people of Israel.[b]
Isaiah 48:20
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Ephesians 5:11
New Living Translation
11 Take no part in the worthless deeds of evil and darkness; instead, expose them.
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Ephesians 5:11
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11 Have nothing to do with the fruitless deeds of darkness,(A) but rather expose them.
Haggai 2:13-14
New Living Translation
13 Then Haggai asked, “If someone becomes ceremonially unclean by touching a dead person and then touches any of these foods, will the food be defiled?”
And the priests answered, “Yes.”
14 Then Haggai responded, “That is how it is with this people and this nation, says the Lord. Everything they do and everything they offer is defiled by their sin.
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Haggai 2:13-14
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13 Then Haggai said, “If a person defiled by contact with a dead body touches one of these things, does it become defiled?”
“Yes,” the priests replied, “it becomes defiled.(A)”
14 Then Haggai said, “‘So it is with this people(B) and this nation in my sight,’ declares the Lord. ‘Whatever they do and whatever they offer(C) there is defiled.
Ezra 1:7-11
New Living Translation
7 King Cyrus himself brought out the articles that King Nebuchadnezzar had taken from the Lord’s Temple in Jerusalem and had placed in the temple of his own gods. 8 Cyrus directed Mithredath, the treasurer of Persia, to count these items and present them to Sheshbazzar, the leader of the exiles returning to Judah.[a] 9 This is a list of the items that were returned:
gold basins | 30 |
silver basins | 1,000 |
silver incense burners[b] | 29 |
10 gold bowls | 30 |
silver bowls | 410 |
other items | 1,000 |
11 In all, there were 5,400 articles of gold and silver. Sheshbazzar brought all of these along when the exiles went from Babylon to Jerusalem.
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Ezra 1:7-11
New International Version
7 Moreover, King Cyrus brought out the articles belonging to the temple of the Lord, which Nebuchadnezzar had carried away from Jerusalem and had placed in the temple of his god.[a](A) 8 Cyrus king of Persia had them brought by Mithredath the treasurer, who counted them out to Sheshbazzar(B) the prince of Judah.
9 This was the inventory:
gold dishes | 30 |
silver dishes | 1,000 |
silver pans[b] | 29 |
10 gold bowls | 30 |
matching silver bowls | 410 |
other articles | 1,000 |
11 In all, there were 5,400 articles of gold and of silver. Sheshbazzar brought all these along with the exiles when they came up from Babylon to Jerusalem.
Revelation 18:4
New Living Translation
4 Then I heard another voice calling from heaven,
“Come away from her, my people.
Do not take part in her sins,
or you will be punished with her.
Revelation 18:4
New International Version
Warning to Escape Babylon’s Judgment
4 Then I heard another voice from heaven say:
Footnotes
- Revelation 18:4 Jer. 51:45
1 Peter 2:11
New Living Translation
11 Dear friends, I warn you as “temporary residents and foreigners” to keep away from worldly desires that wage war against your very souls.
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1 Peter 2:11
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Living Godly Lives in a Pagan Society
11 Dear friends,(A) I urge you, as foreigners and exiles,(B) to abstain from sinful desires,(C) which wage war against your soul.(D)
1 Peter 1:14-16
New Living Translation
14 So you must live as God’s obedient children. Don’t slip back into your old ways of living to satisfy your own desires. You didn’t know any better then. 15 But now you must be holy in everything you do, just as God who chose you is holy. 16 For the Scriptures say, “You must be holy because I am holy.”[a]
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- 1:16 Lev 11:44-45; 19:2; 20:7.
1 Peter 1:14-16
New International Version
14 As obedient(A) children, do not conform(B) to the evil desires you had when you lived in ignorance.(C) 15 But just as he who called you is holy, so be holy in all you do;(D) 16 for it is written: “Be holy, because I am holy.”[a](E)
Footnotes
- 1 Peter 1:16 Lev. 11:44,45; 19:2
Romans 14:14
New Living Translation
14 I know and am convinced on the authority of the Lord Jesus that no food, in and of itself, is wrong to eat. But if someone believes it is wrong, then for that person it is wrong.
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Romans 14:14
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14 I am convinced, being fully persuaded in the Lord Jesus, that nothing is unclean in itself.(A) But if anyone regards something as unclean, then for that person it is unclean.(B)
Acts 10:28
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28 Peter told them, “You know it is against our laws for a Jewish man to enter a Gentile home like this or to associate with you. But God has shown me that I should no longer think of anyone as impure or unclean.
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Acts 10:28
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28 He said to them: “You are well aware that it is against our law for a Jew to associate with or visit a Gentile.(A) But God has shown me that I should not call anyone impure or unclean.(B)
Acts 10:14
New Living Translation
14 “No, Lord,” Peter declared. “I have never eaten anything that our Jewish laws have declared impure and unclean.[a]”
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- 10:14 Greek anything common and unclean.
Acts 10:14
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